Intuitively, the answer is yes, but why might this be the case?
“Old” people, by which I mean geriatric, are statsistically more likely to die after any trauma. Doesn’t matter whether it’s being punched, or a car accident or burns or being tackled in a football game.
The why is because as we get older our bodies start to deteriorate in all sorts of ways. Old people have less effective circulation so healing occurs slower and infection is more common. They have a greater likelihood of heart disease which can cause sudden death in reponse to trauma. They have weaker bones, in the case of elderly women often much more brittle. They have less muscle mass and reduced muscular function so they can not resist impact as effectively.
If we then factor in the likelihood a period of being bedridden and the potentially fatal conditions like pneumonia and bedsores that the chances of old people dying from an assault is much higher.
But it’s hard to attirbute it to any single factor. As we age our bodies become less able to resist damage, less able to heal damage, less able to resist infection in additon to being mor eprone to having pre-existing conditions that are aggravated by injury and stress.
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